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Do crying TikTokkers deserve compassion or contempt?

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John Sutter : A viral video of a young woman complaining about her 40-hour -a-week job went viral.
He says the root problem isn’t the money or the hours or the grocery shopping, it’s the isolation.
Loneliness is reaching epidemic proportions, especially among young adults, he says.
Sutter says it can drive individuals to more extreme positions on issues fraught for electoral politics.
Both parties could use a change in the language they use to address a population that needs compassion.
The “tough love” approach that many on social media brought to a struggling young woman has become the de facto approach to struggling individuals across the spectrum.
Humanity is more connected than it’s ever been, but we’re also more disconnected than perhaps at any time in human history.
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